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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Novel from the Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Porochista Khakpour.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most raved-about works of translated fiction this year\"âJonathan Sturgeon, \u003cI\u003eFlavorwire\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eFrontier \u003c/I\u003eopens with the story of Liujin, a young woman heading out on her own to create her own life in Pebble Town, a somewhat surreal place at the base of Snow Mountain where wolves roam the streets and certain enlightened individuals can see and enter a paradisiacal garden.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring life in this city (or in the frontier) through the viewpoint of a dozen different characters, some simple, some profound, Can Xue's latest novel attempts to unify the grand opposites of life--barbarism and civilization, the spiritual and the material, the mundane and the sublime, beauty and death, Eastern and Western cultures.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA layered, multifaceted masterpiece from the 2015 winner of the Best Translated Book Award, \u003cI\u003eFrontier \u003c/I\u003eexemplifies John Darnielle's statement that Can Xue's books read \"as if dreams had invaded the physical world.\"\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eCan Xue \u003c/B\u003eis a pseudonym meaning \"dirty snow, leftover snow.\" She learned English on her own and has written books on Borges, Shakespeare, and Dante. Her publications in English include \u003cI\u003eThe Embroidered Shoes\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eFive Spice Street\u003c/I\u003e, \u003cI\u003eVertical Motion\u003c/I\u003e, and \u003cI\u003eThe Last Lover\u003c/I\u003e, which won the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eKaren Gernant \u003c/B\u003eis a professor emerita of Chinese history at Southern Oregon University. She translates in collaboration with Chen Zeping.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eChen Zeping \u003c/B\u003eis a professor of Chinese linguistics at Fujian Teachers' University, and has collaborated with Karen Gernant on more than ten translations.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePorochista Khakpour\u003c/b\u003e is the author of two novels, \u003cI\u003eSons and Other Flammable Objects\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eThe Last Illusion\u003c/I\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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